Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 197, Part 1, p. 214. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1976. Accessed December 20, 2022. "Joseph L. McGahn, M.D. (Dem., Absecon)... He graduated from Holy Spirit High School, Mt. St. Mary's College, summa cum laude; University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and served his Internship and residency in Atlantic City Hospital."
"Assistant Ford promoted to replace Ayers", ESPN.com, February 10, 2004. Accessed May 21, 2007. "A native of Atlantic City, N.J., Ford attended Holy Spirit High School in Absecon, N.J., and went on to play at Villanova University from 1968-72, where he helped the Wildcats reach the 1971 NCAA championship game against UCLA."
Welcome, Holy Spirit High School. Accessed April 13, 2021. "Holy Spirit High School opened her doors in 1922 on Massachusetts Avenue in Atlantic City, and in 2014 celebrated her 50th Anniversary in Absecon, New Jersey."
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Tannewald, Jonathan. "Ex-Union assistant B.J. Callaghan to serve as interim USMNT coach this summer", The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 30, 2023. Accessed May 30, 2023. "Top assistant B.J. Callaghan, a Ventnor native with many years of experience with the national team and the Union, will lead the program through this summer’s Concacaf Nations League and Gold Cup tournaments.... The 41-year-old ex-goalkeeper played high school soccer at Holy Spirit, college ball at Ursinus, and worked on the coaching staffs at Ursinus, St. Joseph’s, and Villanova."
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Pizarro, Max. "CD2 Flashpoint: Three Women at the Heart of a Fast-Developing National 2020 Contest", Insider NJ, January 23, 2020. Accessed July 10, 2020. "The daughter of former Atlantic County Freeholder and Absecon Councilman Jerry Savelll, Amy Kennedy was already in a political family when she met Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, and nephew of President John F. Kennedy.... Like fellow Holy Spirit High School graduate Kennedy, Harrison is the daughter – and youngest child – of a local politician."
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Anastasia, George. "Mobscene."Archived April 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, JerseyMan Magazine, September 17, 2012. Accessed April 5, 2014.
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Berger, Howard. "Honorable 'Menschen'", Jewish Times of South Jersey, April 8, 2011. Accessed October 24, 2011. "Stephanie Williams, raised in Margate, graduated Holy Spirit HS and Wagner College, and attending George Washington University Medical School was Miss Washington, DC in January's Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas."
Staff. "Holy Spirit Rows to a Repeat", The Press of Atlantic City, June 21, 2004. Accessed July 10, 2011. "The Holy Spirit High School girls varsity-eight crew celebrates repeating as Peabody Cup champion at the Henley Women's Regatta in Henley-on-Thames, England, on Sunday."
Gargan, Guy. "High School Swimming Championship: Deep Spirit Rules State", The Press of Atlantic City, February 26, 2006. Accessed July 10, 2011. "The Holy Spirit High School boys swimming team had fewer first-place finishes than Bishop Eustace Prep on Saturday in their state Non-Public B championship meet, but the Spartans kept pulling away. Kevin Cain's wins in the 100-yard butterfly and the 100 backstroke led Holy Spirit to a 95.5-74.5 victory at The College of New Jersey."
"Spartans rally to win title", Courier-Post, June 1, 1982. Accessed February 20, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Bill Catalano singled home Matt McCabe in the eighth inning and Holy Spirit High School went on to defeat Essex Catholic, 7-4, for the State Parochial A baseball championship Sunday at Mercer County Park. Holy Spirit, which fell behind 4-0 in the first inning, had forced the game into extra innings with a run in the sixth."
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William Green player profile, National Football League Players Association. Accessed July 23, 2007. "Hometown: Atlantic City, NJ... Earned All-America honors from Super Prep, Tom Lemming, National Recruiting Advisor, RivalNet, Prep Star, Parade and Blue Chip Illustrated and was rated among Super Prep's National Top 50 (third-rated running back on the magazine's dream team), in addition to being a consensus all-state selection at Holy Spirit (Atlantic City, N.J.) High School."
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Stypulkoski, Matt. "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football"Archived January 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 27, 2017, updated May 15, 2019. Accessed December 1, 2020. "11-Holy Spirit vs. St. Joseph (Hamm.) This matchup is relatively recent as it started in 2000 but as both teams became contenders in their respective statewide groups over the past 10-15 years this became a must-see game dubbed the Holy War..... All-time series: St. Joseph (Hamm.) leads, 12-6."
Gould, Brandon. "Girls Soccer: 2016 Non-Public B final preview - Holy Spirit vs. Morris Catholic", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 11, 2016. Accessed January 10, 2017. "Holy Spirit made school history on Thursday with a 4-1 victory over Our Lady of Mercy in the South Jersey, Non-Public B final. Christine Conaghy scored three times in the final to lift the fifth-seeded South Jersey squad to its first ever sectional title."
Strauss, Robert. "Worth Noting; Sailing, Sailing, To a Girls' Championship", The New York Times, June 29, 2003. Accessed July 10, 2020. "Last Sunday, the girls varsity rowing team from Holy Spirit High School, in Absecon, won the Peabody Cup, the top prize in the school/junior category in the Henley Women's Regatta at Henley-on-Thames, England. Though not officially so, the regatta is considered the world championships of rowing, and the Peabody Cup thus gives the Holy Spirit Panthers bragging rights as the best high school eight-person rowing team in the world."
Burrows, Walt. "Spiller's tip-in lifts Holy Spirit", Courier-Post, February 26, 2006. Accessed July 10, 2011. "Cliff Spiller was in an unfamiliar role Saturday when he scored the winning basket and finished with a career-high 13 points in leading Holy Spirit High School to its first-ever Cape-Atlantic League overall boys' basketball championship."
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McGarry, Michael. "Defense leads Holy Spirit to first football state title", The Press of Atlantic City, December 2, 2007. Accessed December 23, 2007. "It is the first state title in Holy Spirit football history. Spirit's victory ended Immaculata's 23-game winning streak. Spirit finishes 12-0 for the first time in school history."
McGarry, Michael. "Holy Spirit races past top-seeded Immaculata, 30-6, to win state Non-Public II title", The Press of Atlantic City, December 9, 2012, updated June 21, 2019. Accessed December 9, 2020. "Taalib Gerald of the Holy Spirit High School football team ran right by several Immaculata defenders on the opening kickoff Saturday night.... Spirit dominated and won its third straight state title, 30-6 over Immaculata in the state Non-Public II championship game at The College of New Jersey. The Spartans won the Non-Public III title in 2010 and have won the Non-Public II title in each of the last two years.... Second-seeded Spirit (8-4) showed quickly that its first touchdown wasn't a fluke."
McGarry, Mike. "Holy Spirit beats St. Joseph for 38-0 for state title", The Press of Atlantic City, December 9, 2019. Accessed October 8, 2020. "The Holy Spirit High School football team played for Bill Walsh on Sunday. More importantly, they played like him. The Spartans dominated their biggest rival on offense, defense and special teams to beat St. Joseph 38-0 to win the state Non-Public II championship at Rutgers University’s SHI Stadium."
McGarry, Michael. "Holy Spirit baseball wins first state title in 33 years", The Press of Atlantic City, June 6, 2015. Accessed May 26, 2016. "The Spartans capped their memorable playoff run by beating Newark Academy 9-4 to win the state Non-Public B title at Toms River North on Saturday afternoon.... The win gave Spirit its first state baseball title since 1982."
"Holy Spirit announces 2017 Hall of Fame inductees", The Current of Pleasantville & Absecon, October 24, 2017. Accessed July 11, 2020. "Charles Dhyne, Dr. Brigid Callahan Harrison (1983), Rev. Edward 'Ted' Heintzelman (1968), Diane Kresz (1982), Steve Light (1979), Thomas Reynolds (1983), Bill Walsh (1985), Joseph Watson, and William 'Whitey' Wenz (1982) will be honored."
DeRosier, John. "Brigantine's Brittany Lewis crowned Miss Black America", The Press of Atlantic City, August 30, 2017. Accessed July 10, 2020. "Former Miss America contestant and Brigantine resident Brittany Lewis was crowned Miss Black America on Saturday at the Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center. Lewis, a 2008 Holy Spirit High School graduate, was a Girl Scout and dancer growing up."
DeRosier, John. "Atlantic City native embroiled in Trump/Flynn controversy", The Press of Atlantic City, May 17, 2017. Accessed November 15, 2017. "McGahn, a longtime Republican campaign lawyer and former commissioner at the Federal Election Commission, grew up in Atlantic City, attending Our Lady Star of the Sea school and Holy Spirit High School, where he played football."
Gargan, Guy. "2005 Holy Spirit grad Tim Reilly hired as Lafayette College baseball coach", The Press of Atlantic City, March 29, 2020. Accessed May 13, 2020. "Former Holy Spirit High School catcher Tim Reilly has been an assistant coach for a total of 10 seasons for three college baseball programs. Reilly, a 32-year-old from Egg Harbor City, will now move up to become the Lafayette College head coach.... The 2005 Holy Spirit graduate played his first three years for the Spartans for coach Dan Kern and his senior year for Keith Gorman."
Cronick, Scott. "Everyone Has a Story: Margate native to be named president of American Heart Association", The Press of Atlantic City, June 20, 2020, updated June 19, 2019. Accessed February 14, 2021. "Dr. Ralph Sacco, chairman of the department of neurology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, will step into the one-year volunteer position in hopes of bringing more attention to strokes, a field that Sacco specializes in and one to which he also has very personal ties. As a medical student, the Holy Spirit High School graduate watched his late grandfather, Alfred 'Fritz' Sacco, struggle with paralysis in a wheelchair caused by stroke. The stroke also caused the former co-owner of Atlantic City's White House Sub Shop to lose some of the jovial personality for which he was known."
Stypulkoski, Matt. "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football"Archived January 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 27, 2017, updated May 15, 2019. Accessed December 1, 2020. "11-Holy Spirit vs. St. Joseph (Hamm.) This matchup is relatively recent as it started in 2000 but as both teams became contenders in their respective statewide groups over the past 10-15 years this became a must-see game dubbed the Holy War..... All-time series: St. Joseph (Hamm.) leads, 12-6."
Anastasia, George. "Mobscene."Archived April 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, JerseyMan Magazine, September 17, 2012. Accessed April 5, 2014.
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Home Page, West Jersey Football League. Accessed May 1, 2023. "The WJFL is a 94-school super conference that stretches from Princeton to Wildwood encompassing schools from the Colonial Valley Conference, the Burlington County Scholastic League, the Olympic Conference, the Tri-County Conference, the Colonial Conference, and the Cape Atlantic League. The WJFL is made up of sixteen divisions with divisional alignments based on school size, geography and a strength-of-program component."
